Ryan Schwenk

that instructed ICE officers that they could enter into a person's home without a judicial warrant.

In other words, instead of ICE agents getting permission from a judge to go into someone's home, they would only need to get approval from ICE using a form called I-205.

It's funny, when I first read it, it was so innocuous sounding.

that at first I didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

I read through it and was like, oh, okay.

So we're going to use I-205s to go into houses.

Okay.

And then it was kind of like when you see like a cartoon character, like their feet stop and they try to break and they kind of like skid, right?

Kind of what my brain did as I read this, I was like, wait a second.

And then I read it through again, more carefully the second time.

And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S.

Constitution says a warrant is needed to enter someone's home.

And courts have consistently said that this applies to everyone who is physically in the country, not just citizens.

So Ryan saw this new policy, and he thought... Oh, no.

Oh, no.

I was by no means at the time an expert on the Fourth Amendment, right?

Obviously, I know the Fourth Amendment because I'm an attorney, but it's not like I'm a constitutional scholar on the thing looking for, like...

Things to nitpick, right?

I'm a lawyer who knows the Fourth Amendment the way most lawyers know the Fourth Amendment as a thing that you learned about and apply in generalities.